An adaptive speckle suppression filter based on Nakagami distribution

EUROCON 2001 - International Conference on Trends in Communications, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 84-87

  Ghofrani, S ^a,b   Jahed Motlagh, M R ^b   Ayatollahi, A ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERS; SPECKLE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADAPTIVE SPECKLE SUPPRESSION FILTERS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS; NAKAGAMI DISTRIBUTION; SPECKLE REDUCTION; STATISTICAL MODELING; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING;

EID: 84969506793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EURCON.2001.937769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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